Kaimukī is a midcentury neighborhood with a kitschy feel. The stretch of Wai‘alae Avenue that forms its core is lined with more than 50 restaurants, bakeries and dessert shops, making it one of Honolulu’s...

With two major music-industry bona fides under her belt—tour dates with Willie Nelson and a songwriting stint in Nashville, Tenn.—Hawai‘i chanteuse Lily Meola is charting success like few her age (an impressive and industrious 21)....